Obama’s First TV Interview With Al Arabiya

In his inaugural address last week U.S. President Barack Obama pledged a “new way forward” in regards to the United States interaction with the Muslim world. In what some think could be a first step in the forging of that new way forward, the President’s first TV interview was granted not to one of the American Big Three or even a U.S. cable network. Instead, Obama sat down with a journalist from Al Arabiya. The 24-hour Dubai-based Arabic language channel is a rival to better known Al Jazeera.